I think that before you take on nation building in your mind's eye as to how it should be, you'd better have a clear understanding if this is doable and will work. — Anthony Zinni Copy Share Image
In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worse,… — Anthony Zinni Copy Share Image
We will pay for this [climate change] one way or another. We will pay to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions today and we'll have to take an enormous hit of some kind. Or we will pay the price later in military terms. And that will involve human lives. There will be a human toll. There is no way out of this that… — Anthony Zinni Copy Share
Service rivalry leads to service pride, which is good for building morale and esprit. — Anthony Zinni Copy Share Image
I think that before you take on nation building in your mind's eye as to how it should be, you'd better have a clear… — Anthony Zinni Copy Share Image
I think the Mogadishu effect, if I had to define it, is we need to be more careful where we decide to commit US… — Anthony Zinni Copy Share Image
If you put two brigades on the ground right now with U.S. forces, they would push ISIS back into Syria in a heartbeat. — Anthony Zinni Copy Share Image
You have to give everybody another recourse as some means other than violence, no matter how distasteful it may be to have to deal… — Anthony Zinni Copy Share Image
I think it's (Israeli pressure for invading Iraq) the worst kept secret in Washington, everybody I talked to in Washington has known and fully… — Anthony Zinni Copy Share Image
The United Nations offers international legitimacy in what we might do. — Anthony Zinni Copy Share Image
Yet, here we are, long and difficult years into that conflict," ... "we still have not created the state we promised them. On the… — Anthony Zinni Copy Share Image
